Group Manager, Technical Advisory

7 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Avanade Full time
Come join us

Our Technical Advisory team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industry and thrives on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organizations around the world.

The Technical Advisory team provides strategic advice on how best to adopt and optimize Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Operating Model, Security and Governance to drive digital transformation that align with a client's business strategy, constraints, and technology to enable realization of demonstrable business value.

We deliver our broad range of advisory services through an integrated, collaborative approach between our clients and practitioners.
Skills and experiences

  • 5+ years of management consulting experience from a top management or professional services firm.
  • Comprehension of the Data/ Analytics strategy and COE definition; AND/OR, understanding of the Artificial Intelligence space, and the ethical themes for AI such as usage and effectiveness, fairness, transparency, or privacy.
  • Experience discussing a wide range of strategic imperatives across functional, operational, and technological issues.
  • Demonstrable skills in analyzing and understanding a variety of problems experienced by medium to largescale organizations from strategy to implementation.
  • Previous experience working on multiple Advisory / Strategy engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment, with Talent, Project, & Budget.
  • Demonstrated experience interfacing and maintaining relationships with executive level clients.
About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

  • Autonomous, enterprising, and positive thinker
  • Resilient, adaptable, flexible
  • Intellectually curious and passionate about tech
  • Storyteller and engaging content creator
What you'll do

  • Advise our clients on their technology transformation, leveraging their digital ambitions, and optimizing their businesstechnology environments.
  • Lead with a team of business leaders, technical and sales experts to determine the strategy for offering identification and investment opportunities and drive strategic changes to the portfolio.
  • Drive a culture of consistent and ongoing client upsell and cross sell opportunities to develop longlasting client relationships.
  • Lead the development, management, and presentation of deliverables to clients, internal teams and sales at management and C suite/ Executive levels.
  • Effectively position Technical Advisory capabilities and services with sales teams, channels, and target clients.
  • Develop compelling technology strategies, including IT Strategy, IT Operating Model, Journey to Cloud strategies, amongst others for our clients, bringing a businessfirst advisory lens and consultative approach to the process.
  • Understand customer business drivers and strategies, architectures, IT adoption roadmaps, operating models, KPIs, to measure and monitor benefits realization.
  • Provide advice to our clients, helping them understand the true potential of technology to transform their business, bridging the gap between business and IT as you build strong client relationships.
  • Work with Avanade and business partners in defining solutions as part of sales pursuits and marketing activities.
Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

  • Topshelf clients
  • Our clients accelerate value by being bold, imaginative—and fast. Look at who we work with you've probably heard of them and will want to inspire them to be better.


 Nextlevel work
  • Utilize emerging tech and become adept at solving business critical issues, acquire industry expertise, and a deep understanding of the technologies and capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem.
  • Flexible work schedule We provide employees with a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times as well as the ability to work remotely.
Find out more about some of our benefits here.

A great place to work


As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return.

As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities.

You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but to also lean on your expertise.

You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live.

It's all here, so take a closer look

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on:

  • Expanding your thinking
  • Experimenting courageously Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by:

  • Empowering every voice
  • Encouraging boldness Celebrating progre

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